Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1887-10-20
NEW USE, FOR wAs cLorH.
How IL Is Taking the Place of Other
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Wire cloth is an article which has but
recently been brought into general use.
For long time its high cost precluded
its use for almost every purpose but for
articles with at least some claims TO be-
ing ornamental. The window and door
screens Of former DAYS were usually
made Of cotton netting, dyed in fancy
colors, and warranted not TO last more
than one season, even with the utmost
care. The few wire screens that were
used were articles Of such luxury that
they generally bore a printed landscape
or other pictorial representation to indi-
cate more strikingly their aristocratio
character. The housefnper who would
have inserted such scree,.s in every win
dow Of her dwelling would have been an
object of wonder TO an entire cummu-
nifty for her colossal extravaganza.
Coarsely y /. ven wire cloth was then used
FOR few purposes, principally for sieves
and cellar window guards, but the total
quantity so used in year in the entire
country was insignificant.
@NoN h'NfNNis liit wiz
including the manufacture Of large
meshed netting. is very important ad-
junct Of the wire trade, enormous guam
titles Of suSh goods being made annually
in quite considerable number of facto-
r1es. The increased use of wire cloth and
its gradual reduction in price have gone
hand in hand, every year seeing more and
Oore dwellings furnished with screens
,Sr windows and doors, not only in mus
quito ridden districts. but in localities
whose greatest insect pest is the ordinary
house fly. Their general introduction
has also been greatly facilitated by the
"dorts of ingenious and wide awake man
.facturers to provide the means Of making
the frames at low cost and with mini
mum of mechanical skill. From all
these causes, and not because flies and
slusquitoes are greater pests than ever
before, the present season has witnessed
the most active demand for wire cloth
ever known.
The use of wire cloth is also extending
In many other directions, as people grow
familiar with and note its adaptability.
Threshing machine sieves were formerly
made Of perforated metal, but large
neehed wire cloth is rapidly taking
lis place. because the grain can fall
through the meshes Of the cloth more
EASILY than through the perforated plate
with its holes necessarily some distance
apart. Corn cribs are being built with
udes and bottom made of heavy wire
cloth, which proves to he especially well
fitted for this purpose, as the air PASSES
through ~ easily and rats cannot gnaw it.
A number Of such instances might be
given TO show the widespread use Of wire
doth, but il is unnecessary. Two ratb~
strange means Of utilizing IL will end our
Illustration. One Of these is the prepara-
hon Of surgical bandages. II has been
found that for this purpose wire cloth
has special merit, II is stiff, Obviating
the use Of splints. Il is open. vcntilating
inilamed parts and allying irritation, and
Il can H. conformcd 10 any special shape
with little difficulty. The other method
Of using wire cloth is in the manufacture
Of collins. A Chicago cofiinmakcr uses
wire cloth as the body Of his caslsets, an.
ing in cement which rapidly hardens
and forms an almost indestructible no
ceptacle for the dead, while il effectually
covers and conceals from view the ma
! terial which holds il in place. AsA